5/26/2023 0 Comments Working by Studs Terkel![]() ![]() They'll have more respect, give more attention to that machine," says the twenty-seven year-old spot welder at Ford. ![]() They give better care to that machine than they will to you. Even their laughter, abrupt and nervous, will make you wince because in Terkel's words, "This book, being about work is, by it's very nature, about violence-to the spirit as well as to the body." "You're nothing more than a machine. Talking casually, sometimes disjointedly and hesitantly, or unleashing long suppressed feelings in an angry torrent, these are not clinical case studies but complex, fully human people whose humdrum reminiscences of long hours, days and years on the job are almost painfully involving. ![]() There is hardly an interviewer, commentator or probing journalist among us who can elicit so much grief and passion, so many forlorn hopes and decayed dreams, so much of the tedium and frustration of daily existence from his subjects as Studs Terkel. ![]()
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